Title: Electronic Raman scattering and the renormalization of the electron spectrum in LuB{sub 12}

Abstract

The electronic Raman scattering in LuB{sub 12} single crystals of various isotope compositions is studied in the temperature range 10–650 K. The shape and the energy position of spectral maxima depend on the direction and magnitude of a probe wavevector, the temperature, and the excitation symmetry and remain unchanged when the isotope composition changes. Experimental spectra are compared with the spectra simulated on the basis of a calculated electronic structure. The experimental results are successfully described when the electron spectrum renormalization effects caused by electron–phonon coupling are taken into account. This confirms that the origin of the observed spectra in LuB{sub 12} is due to Raman scattering by electrons. A comparison of the calculated and experimental data makes it possible to determine the coupling constant (λ{sub ep} = 0.32) that gives the correct superconducting transition temperature.

@article{osti_22617180,
title = {Electronic Raman scattering and the renormalization of the electron spectrum in LuB{sub 12}},
author = {Ponosov, Yu. S., E-mail: ponosov@imp.uran.ru and Streltsov, S. V., E-mail: streltsov@gmail.com and Levchenko, A. V. and Filippov, V. B.},
abstractNote = {The electronic Raman scattering in LuB{sub 12} single crystals of various isotope compositions is studied in the temperature range 10–650 K. The shape and the energy position of spectral maxima depend on the direction and magnitude of a probe wavevector, the temperature, and the excitation symmetry and remain unchanged when the isotope composition changes. Experimental spectra are compared with the spectra simulated on the basis of a calculated electronic structure. The experimental results are successfully described when the electron spectrum renormalization effects caused by electron–phonon coupling are taken into account. This confirms that the origin of the observed spectra in LuB{sub 12} is due to Raman scattering by electrons. A comparison of the calculated and experimental data makes it possible to determine the coupling constant (λ{sub ep} = 0.32) that gives the correct superconducting transition temperature.},
doi = {10.1134/S1063776116090077},
journal = {Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics},
number = 3,
volume = 123,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

Precision measurements of the specific heat and spectral intensity I({omega}) of Raman scattering for Lu{sup N}B{sub 12} single crystal samples with various boron isotopes (N = 10, 11, nat) have been performed at low and intermediate temperatures. A boson peak in the low-frequency part of the I({omega}) spectrum has been observed for the first time for lutetium dodecaboride at liquid nitrogen temperatures. It has been shown that low-temperature anomalies in the specific heat, along with the features of Raman spectra, can be interpreted in terms of the transition to a cageglass state at T* = 50-70 K, which appears whenmore » Lu{sup 3+} ions are displaced from the centrosymmetric position in cavities of a rigid covalent boron sublattice towards the randomly located boron vacancies. The concentrations of various two-level systems that correspond to two types of vibrational clusters with correlation lengths of 12-15 and 18-22 A, respectively, have been estimated. The vibrational density of states of LuB{sub 12} has been calculated from Raman spectra in the model of soft atomic potentials. An approach has been proposed to explain the dielectrization of the properties of the YbB{sub 12} compound at T < T*, as well as the features of the formation of magnetic structures in RB{sub 12} antiferromagnets (R = Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm) and the suppression of superconductivity in LuB{sub 12}.« less

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The galvanomagnetic properties of single-crystal samples with various isotopic boron compositions have been investigated for the first time for the normal state of superconductor LuB{sub 12} (Tc {approx} 0.44 K). Precision measurements of the resistivity, Hall coefficient, and magnetic susceptibility have been performed over a wide temperature range of 2-300 K in magnetic fields up to 80 kOe. A change of the charge transport regime in this nonmagnetic compound with metallic conduction is shown to occur near T* {approx} 50-70 K. As a result, a sharp peak with significantly different amplitudes for Lu{sup 10}B{sub 12} and Lu{sup 11}B{sub 12} ismore » recorded in the temperature dependences of the Hall coefficient R{sub H}(T) near T*. A significant (about 10%) difference (in absolute value) of the Hall coefficients R{sub H} for the Lu{sup 10}B{sub 12} and Lu{sup 11}B{sub 12} compounds at helium and intermediate temperatures has been found and the patterns of behavior of the dependence R{sub H}(H) for T < T* in an external magnetic field H {<=} 80 kOe for Lu{sup 10}B{sub 12} and Lu{sup 11}B{sub 12} are shown to differ significantly. Analysis of the Curie-Weiss contribution to the magnetic susceptibility {chi}(T) leads to the conclusion about the formation of magnetic moments {mu}{sub eff} {approx} (0.13-0.19){mu}{sub B} in each unit cell of the fcc structure of LuB{sub 12} compounds with various isotopic compositions. The possibility of the realization of an electronic topological 2.5-order transition near T* and the influence of correlation effects in the 5d-band on the formation of a spin polarization near the rare-earth ions in LuB{sub 12} is discussed.« less